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The day in photos: Aug. 2, 2014

Eric Quinn, left, and his wife, Christine, of Golden, Colo., search for merchandise at the 74th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, S.D., on Friday, August 1, 2014. Organizers expect attendance at this week's Sturgis Motorcycle Rally to top the estimated 466,000 who made the annual trek last year. (AP Photo/Toby Brusseau)

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The day in photos: Aug. 2, 2014

Eric Quinn, left, and his wife, Christine, of Golden, Colo., search for merchandise at the 74th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, S.D., on Friday, August 1, 2014. Organizers expect attendance at this week's Sturgis Motorcycle Rally to top the estimated 466,000 who made the annual trek last year. (AP Photo/Toby Brusseau) Toby Brusseau AP

A woman pours alcohol over a taxidermied cria, or baby llama, and other offerings which will be sacrificed by fire as part of the ceremony for "Pachamama," or "Mother Earth," on La Cumbre, a mountain that is considered scared ground, on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. The month of August is the time people gather in the mountains of Bolivia to make offerings in honor of the earth goddess and ask for good fortune. According to local agrarian tradition, Mother Earth awakes hungry and thirsty in August and needs offerings of food and drink in order for to be fertile and yield abundant crops. (AP Photo/Juan Karita) Juan Karita ASSOCIATED PRESS

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her Supreme Court chambers in Washington, Thursday, July 31, 2014. Ginsburg says the Supreme Court won't duck the issue of same-sex marriage the next time a case comes to the court. The 81-year-old Ginsburg said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday that she expects a same-sex marriage case to be heard and decided by June 2016, and possibly a year earlier.(AP Photo/Cliff Owen) Cliff Owen AP

Students cheer while dressed in togas during the ?Day in Old Rome? festivities at the National Junior Classical League's Annual National Convention at Emory University, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014, in Atlanta. More than 1,800 middle and high school students and Latin teachers take part in the week-long event celebrating Latin and Greek language, history and culture through workshops, academics and athletic competitions. (AP Photo/David Goldman) David Goldman ASSOCIATED PRESS

Palestinian Nidal Abu Rjeilah, 30, leans over the blanket-covered corpse of his disabled sister Ghadeer, 17, in the southern Gaza village of Khuzaa on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. Abu Rjeilah said he and other relatives had been forced to leave Ghadeer behind when fleeing Israeli firing nine days earlier because they could not push her wheelchair quickly enough for a safe escape. A brief lull Friday offered the first opportunity for Abu Rjeilah to find his sister's body. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) Khalil Hamra ASSOCIATED PRESS

Locals survey the damage from massive gas explosions in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. Scores of people were killed when several underground gas explosions ripped through Taiwan's second-largest city overnight, hurling concrete through the air and blasting long trenches in the streets, authorities said Friday. (AP Photo/Wally Santana) Wally Santana ASSOCIATED PRESS

A poster of later Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is seen on the rubble of a destroyed house in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) Adel Hana ASSOCIATED PRESS

Palestinians carry their belongings after salvaging them from their destroyed houses in the heavily bombed town of Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) Lefteris Pitarakis ASSOCIATED PRESS

A woman crosses over a trench made from a massive gas explosion in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. Scores of people were killed and more than 200 others injured when several underground gas explosions ripped through Taiwan's second-largest city overnight, hurling concrete through the air and blasting long trenches in the streets, authorities said Friday. (AP Photo/Wally Santana) Wally Santana ASSOCIATED PRESS

People burn offerings to "Pachamama," or "Mother Earth," on La Cumbre, a mountain that is considered scared ground, on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. The month of August is the time people gather in the mountains of Bolivia to make offerings in honor of the earth goddess and ask for good fortune. According to local agrarian tradition, Mother Earth awakes hungry and thirsty in August and needs offerings of food and drink in order for to be fertile and yield abundant crops. (AP Photo/Juan Karita) Juan Karita ASSOCIATED PRESS

Wearing a Batman mask, 68-year-old Angie Bravo takes money from a man on Hollywood Boulevard on Thursday, July 31, 2014, in Los Angeles. On a good day Bravo says she makes up to $50. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Jae C. Hong AP

The sun casts a flare on the photographer's lens as the late evening sun casts shadows on the runners in the men's 10,000-meter race in Hampden Park stadium during the Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland, Friday Aug. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) Kirsty Wigglesworth ASSOCIATED PRESS